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Editor's note: civil defense Is a
stoprhild. The federal government
limits its civil defense role largely to
planning. It says cities and states
must bear the main responsibility.
But federal planning has lagged be
hind weapons. Now a new threat
looms the intercontinental missile.
A House subcommittee investigating
civil defense has been quizzing scien
tists, officials, military leaders. The
hearings have received only piece
meal notice The following dispatch
reports what some scientific and
technical men think about the state
of civil defense in America.
By JOHN L. MYLER
. United Press Correspondent
Washington 'U.R) A sci
entific and professional group
hired by the Civil Defense ad
ministration (CDA) has come up
with a finding: CDA is a flop.
The verdict was that America
has no real civil defense. Its peo
ple, cities, and industries, its
very government, are wide-open
to atomic destruction. CDA is a
boondoggle. Congress and the
executive department are drag
ging their feet.
The group, known as the
Advisory Committee on Civil
Defense, was created a couple
of years aso by the National
Academy 8i Sciences and the
National Research council. It
was created . specifically at the
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nanced its work.
Committee Named
The committee is headed by
Merle A. Tuva, 54, a distinguish
ed physicist who played key
roles in developing the atomic
bomb and the proximity fuse.
He is chief of the terrestrial
magnetism department of the
Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton. ,
Technical director of the com
mittee is Willard Bascom, 38, a
research engineer on leave from
the University of California at
Berkeley. He is a veteran of U.
S. nuclear weapons tests.
The public might never have
learned what Tuve and Bascom
think about the state of civil de
fense in America had they not
been ordered to talk. They con
sidered themselves to have a
"confidential" relationship with !
the CDA.
Their orders to talk were in
the form of "friendly subpeon
as" issued by a House govern
ment operations subcommittee
investigating civil defense. What
they said didn't get much at
tention at the time. They testi
fied Feb 8. That was the 'day
Connie Mack died. It also was
the day President Eisenhower
said he would announce his run-or-not
decision by March 1. .
But they said plenty:
Lack Conception
Tuve: Civil Defense .Admin
istrator Val Peterson "is a de
voted public servant . . . but he
and his top lieutenants seem to
have rio conception of what
should constitute an acceptable
performance by their organization."
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Kansas City, Mo. National Republican Chairman Leonard
Hall on whether he thought the Democrats would make President
Eisenhower's health an election issue:
"If they do, they will regret it. In 1944, the Republicans con
sidered the same possibility, but decided if they made President
Roosevelt's health an issue it would cost votes."
Kansas City Mo. National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler
at the same news conference (with President Roy Roberts of the
Kansas City Star):
"The Democrats are not making the President's health an issue.
The President made his health an issue himself. H is a matter of
vital interest to the American people and it will enter the campaign."
Palm Beach, Fla. International socialite Audrey Emery, mar
ried twice previously to royalty, denying that she will marry
Prince Pierre, father of Prince Rainier III of Monaco:
"Naturally I saw him (Prince Pierre) while he was here; we're
old friends. That doesn't mean we're going to be married."
Amman, Jordan King Hussein of Jordan in an interview with
United Press staffer George Bilar on why he fired Lt. Gen. John
Glubb as head of Jordan's famed Arab Legion:
"Glubb remained deaf to my repeated orders. I lost faith in
Glubb's judgment and loyalty to Jordan."
Washington President Eisenhower to 1,500 wildly cheering
Republican women in a surprise visit to the Republican Women's
National conference:
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the deter
mination to advance the cause that is right, that is moral, then it
is not a party but merely a conspiracy ... to seize power."
Washington Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash.) on an adminis
tration order that Pentagon employees refrain from testifying
about strategic trade between Russia and this country's allies:
"This is not national security, but a national coverup."
Washington Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) on the same
subject:
"Right now I'm beginning to look back on the good old days
of Harry Truman."
Bascom: " "The public can
scarcely be expected to have
confidence in the present lead
ership when they turn to Wash
ington and see that Congress
does not provide for its own
protection . . . the executive
branch . . . continues to build
its buildings and let contracts
in critical target areas . . ."
Both men feel the biggest de
fect is the theory that civil de
fense is a state and local prob
lem. H-bomb blast and fallout
do not stop short at city, coun
ty, or state lines.
"The federal government,"
Bascom said "is clearly respon
sible." Tuve said a good defense
could be established for $4 to
$7,000,000,000 spread out over
10 years. He said 80 per cent
of casualties and deaths could
be "avoided' 'and national sur
vival assured.
Last year the CDA was per
mitted to spend $69,000,000
most of it "ineffectively," ac
cording to Tuve. This year it is
asking $125,000,000.
Hurricane Strikes
Brazil Cocoa Port
Ilheus, Brazil (U.R) A
hurricane struck this chief Bra
zilian cocoa port of 25,000 pop
ulation Tuesday causing heavy
damage.
Police said more than 600
houses crumbled, and streets
and cocoa depots were flooded.
There were no reports of casualties.
Highway 30 Blocked
By Truck Accident
La Grande (U.R) Traffic
was blocked for miles on High
way 30 yesterday when a
Safeway grocery truck skidded,
jack-knifed and caught fire near
here.
The highway was blocked for
two- and- a- half hours while
wreckage of the truck and
trailer was removed. Driver
was Chester Nickerson, 44, Bea
erton. He was not hurt.
Democrals Seek Life
For School Measure
Washington (U.R) Seven
House Democrats today tried to
breath life into the $1,600,000,
000 school construction bill.
The seven congressmen urged
President Eisenhower to declare
he would deny federal aid to
segregated schools.
The congressmen hoped the
presidential commitment would
cause backers of a proposed anti-segregation
amendment to the
school bill to drop it.
The amendment which would
deny federal aid to segregated
schools threatens to keep the
school bill off the House floor
indefinitely because of southern
opposition, to it.
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